Comment by rayiner
17 hours ago
Nothing! If a superior civilization comes to America and wipes it out and builds a new society in its place, then those people will also be “settlers” not “immigrants.”
17 hours ago
Nothing! If a superior civilization comes to America and wipes it out and builds a new society in its place, then those people will also be “settlers” not “immigrants.”
I'm worried about your use of "superior" here but yeah the rest of that is right.
Why? It is demonstrably superior. If it wasn’t we wouldn’t be debating whether it’s immoral to not let everyone else on the planet in.
The only real advantage of European settlers was smallpox immunity. If not for that the history could move in a very different direction.
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I think it’s telling that you have the opinion that a superior civilization would wipe out another at all.
Do you mean the kind of superior civilization that progressed from chattel slavery to being run by a cabal of pedophiles?
The kind that invented the internet and the airplane and the microchip and put a man on the moon.
> The kind that invented the internet
Seriously did not expect a MiniTel reference here. Vive Le France‽
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
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Ah, that explains the Israeli "settlers" in Gaza.